Top 37 must-see best mystery movies from mystery movies, including Pan's Labyrinth, Salem's Lot, Poltergeist, Weapons, The Lighthouse, Blue Velvet, Dead Ringers, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, and The Gift ranked and rated by score.
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Plot / Synopsis: In the falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sad**tic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
Tagline: What happens when make-believe believes it's real?...
Director: Guillermo del Toro Stars: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones, Ariadna Gil
Plot / Synopsis: A novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires.
Tagline: Iconic terror from the No 1 bestselling writer...
Stars: David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres
Plot / Synopsis: An interrelated, multistory horror epic about the disappearance of high school students in a small town.
From New Line Cinema and Zach Cregger, the wholly original mind behind Barbarian, comes a new horror/thriller: Weapons.
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning...
Director: Zach Cregger Stars: Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, June Diane Raphael, Austin Abrams, Amy Madigan
Plot / Synopsis: The story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Tagline: There is enchantment in the light...
Director: Robert Eggers Stars: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman, Logan Hawkes, Kyla Nicolle
Plot / Synopsis: The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Tagline: It's a strange world...
Director: David Lynch Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange
Plot / Synopsis: Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
Tagline: Two bodies. Two minds. One soul...
Director: David Cronenberg Stars: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon, Shirley Douglas
Plot / Synopsis: In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion.Tagline: Get some sleep...
Director: Philip Kaufman Stars: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright, Leonard Nimoy
Plot / Synopsis: A ballet rendition of Bram Stoker's gothic novel DRACULA, presented in a style reminiscent of the silent expressionistic cinema of the early 20th Century. This work employs the subtle and sometimes bold use of color to emphasize its themes, but mainly is presented in black-and-white, or tinted in monochrome. No spoken dialogue can be heard, and the story of...
Director: Guy Maddin Stars: Wei-Qiang Zhang, Tara Birtwhistle, David Moroni, CindyMarie Small, Johnny A. Wright
Plot / Synopsis: Good old "Gordo", played by Joel Edgerton, returns after 25 years for revenge on a man named Simon (Jason Bateman) and his wife named Robyn (Rebecca Hall). Gordo starts by bringing presents and creeping out Robyn so Simon tells him to stay away. Gordo flips out and begins to terrorize the couple. That is the basic story of Joel Edgerton's...
Director: Joel Edgerton Stars: Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton, Allison Tolman, Tim Griffin
Plot / Synopsis: Three generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer.
Tagline: Three stories. Three generations. Three men. One bizarre and shocking universe...
Director: György Pálfi Stars: Csaba Czene, Gergely Trócsányi, Marc Bischoff, Gina Moreno, István Gyuricza
Plot / Synopsis: Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman.
Tagline: Who will it come for next?!...
Director: Tim Burton Stars: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien
Plot / Synopsis: Thirst (2009) was the breakout vampire themed mad love story that came out of South Korea in 2009. Directed by Chan-wook Park with an estimated $5 million movie budget, this film did a great job of bringing a unique point of view in this fantasy horror movie. Kang-ho Song, Ok-bin Kim, and Hae-suk Kim star in Thirst (2009), aka Bakjwi...
Director: Chan-wook Park Stars: Kang-ho Song, Hee-jin Choi, Dong-soo Seo, Hwa-ryong Lee, Mi-ran Ra
Plot / Synopsis: Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence...
Director: Kevin Phillips Stars: Owen Campbell, Charlie Tahan, Elizabeth Cappuccino, Amy Hargreaves, Max Talisman
Plot / Synopsis: A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Tagline: No one does it to you like Roman Polanski...
Director: Roman Polanski Stars: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson
